peyorasi
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Dutch pejoratie. By surface analysis, peyora + -si. Cognates to Afrikaans pejorasie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peyorasi (first-person possessive peyorasiku, second-person possessive peyorasimu, third-person possessive peyorasinya)
- (linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time; pejoration or pejorativization.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “peyorasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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